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Dock vs Trumpet

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Dock

Sales Enablement

Client-facing workspaces for deal rooms, onboarding plans and customer portals

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Trumpet

Sales Enablement

Digital sales rooms with mutual action plans, e-signature and a free tier that is genuinely usable

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Dock the free plan excludes Salesforce and HubSpot integration, which is the capability that turns Dock from a nicer file share into a sales tool, so the free tier does not let you evaluate the thing you would actually buy.; Trumpet e-signature, proposals and quotes are held back to the Scale tier at 100 US dollars per user per month, so a team on Pro still needs a separate signing tool and pays twice for one workflow.
  • They diverge on capability: Dock covers Digital sales rooms, Trumpet covers Pods.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Dock and Trumpet actually diverge.

Attributes where Dock and Trumpet differ
AttributeDockTrumpet
Pricing modelPer month by plan with additional seats chargedPer user per month
PlatformsWebWeb, Chrome extension

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Sales Enablement).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Dock

  • Digital sales rooms
  • Onboarding hubs
  • Content library
  • Order forms
  • Engagement tracking
  • AI document generation
  • CRM sync

Only in Trumpet

  • Pods
  • Engagement analytics
  • E-signature
  • Content management
  • Video and screen recording
  • Trumpet AI suite
  • White-labelling
  • Multi-team workspaces

Both cover

  • Mutual action plans

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Dock

  • A sales team replacing scattered Drive links and follow-up emails with one tracked workspace per opportunitynot Trumpet
  • An account executive running a mutual action plan with a buying committee that needs shared visibility of dates and ownersnot Trumpet
  • A customer success team carrying the same workspace from signed deal into onboarding without rebuilding itnot Trumpet
  • A revenue leader wanting evidence of whether buyers actually opened the material sent after a demonot Trumpet

Trumpet

  • A sales team whose proposals currently go out as PDF attachments and who have no idea whether anyone beyond their contact ever opened themnot Dock
  • A complex enterprise deal with six stakeholders where a shared mutual action plan is the only way to keep both sides honest about datesnot Dock
  • A customer success team running structured onboarding that wants the plan, recordings and documents in one link the customer keeps returning tonot Dock
  • A European buyer that needs a supplier under UK or EU jurisdiction rather than a US vendor for data protection reasonsnot Dock

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Dock

  • The free plan excludes Salesforce and HubSpot integration, which is the capability that turns Dock from a nicer file share into a sales tool, so the free tier does not let you evaluate the thing you would actually buy.
  • Branding and layout customisation is the most common complaint from users; teams with strict design standards find workspaces they cannot make match the rest of their buyer-facing material.
  • Workspaces render poorly on mobile, which matters because executive stakeholders in a buying committee frequently open a shared link on a phone first and form their impression there.
  • Premium requires annual billing at 1,000 US dollars a month, so the step from Standard is a twelve-thousand dollar commitment rather than an incremental monthly upgrade, and it is triggered by asset limits as often as by seat count.
  • The HubSpot integration is reported as noticeably weaker than the Salesforce one, so HubSpot-based teams get less of the CRM automation that justifies the paid tiers.

Trumpet

  • E-signature, proposals and quotes are held back to the Scale tier at 100 US dollars per user per month, so a team on Pro still needs a separate signing tool and pays twice for one workflow.
  • Single sign-on and SCIM only appear on Elite at 160 per user per month, which puts basic enterprise identity controls behind the most expensive tier rather than treating them as security baseline.
  • Pro is capped at five users, so a sixth hire forces a jump from 45 to 100 per user per month, more than doubling the per-seat cost for a headcount reason.
  • A digital sales room only works if buyers actually use the link, and in industries where procurement insists on email attachments and its own portals, the engagement analytics that justify the spend never materialise.
  • It competes against enablement platforms that bundle rooms into a wider content and coaching suite, so organisations already paying for one of those are buying an overlapping capability rather than a missing one.

Pricing, plan by plan

Dock

Free
  • FreeFree
    • 5 users
    • 10 workspaces
    • 25 content assets
  • Standard$350/month
    • 10 users included
    • Unlimited workspaces
    • 100 content assets
  • Premium$1000/month
    • 25 or more users, billed annually
    • Unlimited assets, playbooks, courses and order forms
    • CRM-integrated order forms
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • API access
    • Custom domain and sending addresses
    • SCIM provisioning

Trumpet

Free
  • FreeFree
    • 10 pods per account
    • Unlimited users
    • Mutual action plans
  • Pro$45/month
    • Up to 5 users
    • Unlimited pods and content uploads
    • Unlimited templates
  • Scale$100/month
    • Unlimited users
    • Everything in Pro
    • AI content search, tagging and writer
  • Elite$160/month
    • Unlimited users
    • Everything in Scale
    • Full Trumpet AI suite including Copilot and org charts

Which should you pick?

Choose Dock if

  • You need digital sales rooms.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You also want onboarding hubs.
Dock review

Choose Trumpet if

  • You need pods.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Web, Chrome extension.
  • You also want engagement analytics.
Trumpet review

Questions people ask

Is Dock or Trumpet better?
Neither clearly leads. Dock starts at Free and Trumpet at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Dock or Trumpet?
Dock starts at Free and Trumpet at Free.
Does Dock or Trumpet run on more platforms?
Dock runs on Web. Trumpet runs on Web, Chrome extension.
Can I use Dock for free?
Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Dock best used for?
Dock is most often used for a sales team replacing scattered drive links and follow-up emails with one tracked workspace per opportunity, an account executive running a mutual action plan with a buying committee that needs shared visibility of dates and owners, a customer success team carrying the same workspace from signed deal into onboarding without rebuilding it, a revenue leader wanting evidence of whether buyers actually opened the material sent after a demo. Of those, a sales team replacing scattered drive links and follow-up emails with one tracked workspace per opportunity and an account executive running a mutual action plan with a buying committee that needs shared visibility of dates and owners are not what Trumpet is typically brought in for.
What can Dock do that Trumpet cannot?
Dock covers Digital sales rooms, Onboarding hubs, Content library, Order forms. Trumpet covers Pods, Engagement analytics, E-signature, Content management. Both handle Mutual action plans.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Dock: Do buyers and clients need a licence?

No. External collaborators are free on every plan, including Free.

Trumpet: Is the free plan genuinely usable?

Yes. Ten pods per account with unlimited users, mutual action plans and integrations is enough to run real deals, not just a trial.

Dock: Is Dock useful without a CRM integration?

Much less so, and the free plan has none. Budget for Standard if you want activity flowing back to Salesforce or HubSpot.

Trumpet: When do I need to pay?

At the eleventh pod, or when you need e-signature and proposals, which start at Scale on 100 US dollars per user per month.

Dock: Can it handle post-sale onboarding as well as deals?

Yes, that is one of its stronger arguments: the same workspace carries from deal to implementation without rebuilding it.

Trumpet: Where is the company based?

London, United Kingdom, which matters for procurement teams that prefer a UK or EU contracting entity.

Dock: Is pricing per seat?

Partly. Plans bundle a user count and additional seats are 50 US dollars a month each on top.

Trumpet: Does it replace PandaDoc or DocuSign?

From Scale upward it can, since signing happens inside the pod, though it also integrates with both if you want to keep them.

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